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News and events from the Heritage Office in Westmeath County Council - Built and Cultural Heritage and biodiversity
Westmeath Ireland
Joined October 2017
#heritageweek2025 kicks off tomorrow 16 Aug and runs to 24 Aug! There are lots of great events planned across the county all week. For full event detail and updates check https://t.co/FnvuD7mjLC
#exploringourfoundations
@westmeathcoco @whcclibrary @NamesField @HeritageHubIRE
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Competition : Design a 3D model of a Game Piece for the board game Hnefatafl. Win a €100 voucher & a 3d print of your piece Enter by 28 Feb 2025. See our website for more details : https://t.co/blqClsziCT
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With input from author Tadhg Carey @westmeathindo and Siobhan Doyle @NMIreland The film was funded by the Commemorations Initiative, @DeptCultureIRL
#sportinghistory @westmeathlibraries @westmeathindo
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New 🎥 about Athlone Town's cup victory in 1924, the subsequent soccer competition inOthe 1924 Paris Olympics & that year's Tailteann Games, including its links with singer John McCormack. https://t.co/gBHw8y8dnA The film was created by Swell Audio & Historian Ian Kenneally
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with input from @tadhgcarey Westmeath Independent & Siobhan Doyle @NMIreland The film was funded by the Commemorations Initiative @DeptCultureIRL
#sportingHistory
@whcclibrary
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A collaboration by film Maker Miroslav Wycka & choreographer Siobhan Murphy from Dionysus School of Dance. The project has been made possible thanks to funding from @creativeirl & permission of @NMIreland
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Short 🎥 https://t.co/z6R8yyspEj interprets ‘The Game Piece’ sculpture located in the garden at @westmeathcoco #Mullingar It includes digital models of a Viking Age game piece from Lough Swedy & the Ballinderry gaming board. @DiscProg @NMIreland @creativeirl
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Works assisted by the Historic Structures Fund #HSF @DeptHousingIRL with support from @westmeathcoco Film funded by @HeritageHubIRE &Athlone Number One Gun Battery Heritage Group. #Athlone #BuiltHeritage #archaeology
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New 🎥 on recent conservation works at the Athlone Number One Gun Battery https://t.co/KASKc6Vg6b The No. 1 is the last remaining of example of the eight gun batteries constructed to defend Athlone from the threat of Napoleonic invasion.
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Check out this digital model of Ballinderry Gaming Board created by @DiscProg with permission of @NMIreland & funded by @creativeirl
https://t.co/vZ8vErCv0a Used for a Viking Age board game, It was found during archaeological excavations at Ballinderry crannóg, near Moate.
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‘Athlone, Mullingar and the Atlas of the Irish Civil War’ New #Blog by Historian in Residence Ian Kenneally is now live: https://t.co/hwj9hCjhGK Historian in Residence position with @westmeathcoco is supported by @DeptCultureIRL under their Commemorations Initiative #History
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The report focuses on the songs that were inspired by Bertles's life & death, including 'When the Carnival Returns', by Eoghan Burke commissioned by @westmeathcoco as part of its Decade of Centenaries commemorations in 2023. @DeptCultureIRL
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This evening (20 Oct) @RTEHistoryShow includes a report on the case of Richard Bertles from Drumraney, who was shot dead in Ballymore, Co. Westmeath in Jan 1923. Report compiled by @westmeathcoco Historian in Residence Ian Kenneally
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Explore the wonderful world of swifts with @NMIreland for #scienceweek
eventbrite.ie
An evening exploring swifts, those amazing aerial acrobats. This event is presented by the National Museum of Ireland with Midlands Science.
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Castlelost Church near Rochfortbridge is one of the Westmeath monuments to benefit from the Community Monuments Fund @NationalMons @DeptHousingIRL #CMF2024 We will update on progress here #CastlelostHeritageProject #archaeologicalmonument #builtheritageconservation
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Conservation work is progressing on another stretch of Athlone Town Wall, thanks to @HeritageHubIRE funding through the Irish Walled Towns Network. Works specified by @CORA_Eng & overseen by @archaeologyplan under Ministerial Consent @NationalMons #irishwalledtownsnetwork
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held at the Visitor Centre @BelvedereHouse #HeritageWeek2024. Funded by the Commemorations Initiative, @DeptCultureIRL @westmeathcoco
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🎥 'The many owners of Belvedere House' #Watchback - talk by Historian Ruth Illingworth given as part of the ‘Big Mountains and the Big House’ seminar https://t.co/8yqGorkRXB
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The lecture which is free to view and the link can be accessed on the Westmeath Archaeological and Historical Society website www. https://t.co/fk8uILGo86
@UisneachFire
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'The Gaelic League & the Hill of Uisneach' online lecture by Angus Mitchell to be hosted by Westmeath Archaeological & Historical Society on 25 Sept at 8pm. Angus Mitchell a widely published historian was awarded @RIAdawson Bursary to research the Hill of Uisneach 1898 - 1928.
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